Re: Should we skip HTML?

[Scott Gray <scotty -at- CM -dot- MATH -dot- UIUC -dot- EDU>]

It's a wonder that the World Wide Web ever became so popular.  We should
just be using ftp to transfer PDF files back and forth to each other.

;o)



Scott Mills Gray
scotty -at- cm -dot- math -dot- uiuc -dot- edu
http://www.useractive.com

"I hear and I forget, I see and I forget, I do and I forget" -- confused.


On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, David Knopf wrote:

> I'm going to avoid getting on either side of the religious war here, but I
> do have interesting real world example. I recently gave presentations at
> two of the San Francisco Bay Area STC chapters. I published the
> presentation materials on my Web site so that attendees could download
> them. In my attempt to accommodate everyone's religion, I made the
> materials available both in HTML and PDF format. Out of 150 accesses, 2
> people chose the HTML version, and 148 chose the PDF version.
>
> Draw your own conclusions ...
>
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